The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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April 15 - 25, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Holmes Colbert for more information about enrolling his son, Overton Colbert, in the Carlisle Indian School following his graduation from the Murray Agricultural School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information by Holmes Colbert391.5 KB
April 15, 1914 - May 27, 1914
The Musolaphone Corporation writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to invite him to a presentation of their "sound transmission" equipment and "educational talking pictures." Musolaphone informs Sells that they will be holding a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Academic Supplies
View Document: Request to Install a Sound System and Educational Motion Pictures1.4 MB
April 21, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a trip for Arnold Holliday to visit his uncle Henry Holliday in Washington D. C.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Arnold Holliday Trip to Washington D. C.167.03 KB
April 22, 1914 - July 10, 1918
Edward B. Linnen was an inspector from the Bureau of Indian Affairs who visited Carlisle. His inspection was part of a larger investigation in the spring of 1914. This post includes selections from his employee paperwork collected by the BIA…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Inspection of the School
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Selections from Personnel Folder of Edward B. Linnen2.85 MB
April 24-25, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Francis Obern to his home from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Francis Obern405.34 KB
May 2, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests funds from the Department of the Interior for the fourth quarter of 1914.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for the 1914 Fourth Quarter252.08 KB
May 3, 1914 - July 3, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the transfer of money in John J. Campbell's account to the Sisseton Indian School in Sisseton, South Dakota.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Money Owed to John J. Campbell547.47 KB
May 4, 1914 - October 25, 1918
These materials include correspondence and legal documents regarding the 1914 internal and Congressional investigations into Superintendent Moses Friedman and Chief Clerk Siceni J. Nori of the Carlisle Indian School. Included is copied and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Correspondence Regarding 1914 Congressional Investigation8.01 MB
May 12, 1914 - July 6, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps provides a list of employees that do not have quarters at the school and therefore have to rent or own their own living spaces in the town of Carlisle. He informs the Commissioner…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Attempt to Quarter or Give Raises to Employees who Live Off-Campus646.23 KB
May 13, 1914
This material includes documents regarding Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps' request for authorization to pay students to work on the farm over the summer.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Authorization to Pay Students for Summer Work on School Farm470.96 KB
May 20-28, 1914
State Normal School History and Social Service Professor S. H. Dodson applies for the Superintendency at the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Dodson that the position is only open to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Superintendent is a Civil Service Position190.62 KB
May 21-22, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the "Indian Moneys Proceeds Labor" and "Indian School Transportation" accounts are exhausted and requests funds to fill these…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Fund Request for Two Accounts Granted130.34 KB
May 22, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $100.00 "for general school purposes."
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Spend $100 for General School Purposes144.27 KB
May 25, 1914
Cato Sells requests the Carlisle Indian School print various form letters for use in the Citizenship Essay Contest. Sells includes one of the form letters.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sells Requests Carlisle Print Form Letters for Citizenship Essay Contest268.88 KB
May 26, 1914 - June 10, 1914
Aaron Bourbonnais requests that his daughter, Isabel Bourbonnais, be sent to his new home in New Mexico rather than their previous home in Oklahoma.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Isabel Bourbonnais to New Home315.17 KB
May 27-29, 1914
United States Senator Miles Poindexter forwards high school principal Bruce Bartholomew's application for an appointment to the Carlisle Indian School to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells. Sells informs Poindexter that principal and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Civil Service Requirement for Teacher and Principal Positions238.08 KB
May 27 - October 2, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps encloses correspondence involving the school, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway Company to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Second…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
May 29, 1914 - June 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Congressman Carter D. Moore to send material concerning the Carlisle Indian School to Jackson Moore.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information to be Sent to Jackson Moore275.76 KB
June 3-12, 1914
C. E. Cahel complains to the Bureau of Indian Affairs that students attending the Hogansburg Indian School were being prevented from applying to the Carlisle Indian School. Cahel claims that Hogansburg school officials refused to sign students'…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaint of Refused Applications from the Hogansburg Industrial School308.74 KB
June 4-22, 1914
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that The Report of the Joint Congressional Investigating Committee found that a "large percentage" of the student body have trachoma. Lipps requests that the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Medical Care at School
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Large Percentage of Students Afflicted with Trachoma271.16 KB
June 4, 1914 - June 25, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor. Lipps also forwards how he spent that $100 and requests another $100 under authority 56002.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request to Expend Funds from Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor Account402.35 KB
June 15-24, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests funds for the fourth quarter of 1914. He later requests that that the request for $1,000 for "Industrial Work and Care of Timber, 1914, (Field Matrons)" be removed.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Funds for 1914 Fourth Quarter284.03 KB
June 15 - August 31, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Elvira Anderson to have her daughter, Melissa Anderson, returned home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home Melissa Anderson1.29 MB
June 22-27, 1914
These materials include a request by W. F. Graham for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by W. F. Graham176.74 KB
June 23-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a resolution regarding the YMCA Middle Atlantic Student Conference of 1914. A delegation of four Carlisle Indian School students attended the conference, and adopted resolutions "for the betterment,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Resolutions from YMCA Middle Atlantic Student Conference214.4 KB